Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians were still in front last week-tied with the Tigers. Each team had won 85 games, lost 61. Each had eight more games to play-six of them against each other. To watch this croo-cial series, a sell-out crowd jampacked Detroit's Briggs Stadium. Del Baker's Tigers, a scrappy outfit, with three dependable pitchers and five players hitting over .300, had, despite their creaky infield, chugged along neck & neck with the Indians all summer - fighting off the challenges of the Yankees and White Sox in the most exciting stretch run in the history...
...book is history in novel form-the story of the first great military action in the war against fascism of which the Battle of Britain is the latest. It is built up around the battles that the Internationals fought to save Madrid-University City, Boadilla del Monte, the Arganda Bridge, Guadalajara where they routed Mussolini's troops. It is written in great chunks in which the rabble armies struggle to advance a mile, are thrown back ten, somehow hold on; in which their little human components hope, despair, suffer, exult, sometimes betray, always fight to stay alive, to kill...
Teeth In Lewes, Del., 84-year-old Jacob Morris complained to his dentist of sore gums, was advised to throw away his false teeth, "get a teething ring." Reason: a new set was about to break through...
...Lewes, Del., when Commodore John B. Wine of the Lewes Yacht Club fired the starting gun for a race, he winged a wild duck...
...done nobly. In negotiation were arrangements to reopen the abandoned, rotting Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia (which turned out many a World War I emergency vessel). Lined up were other private yards at Chester, Pa., Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Beaumont, Tex., Tampa, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., Oakland, Calif., Wilmington, Del. In collaboration with Labor's Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox announced a plan to round up unemployed artisans in the interior, transport them to the coasts. Some of the sand was taken out of the Navy Department's gears. Payments to contractors have been increased and speeded...